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Marcus Garvey posthumously pardoned by Joe Biden

January 22, 2025 | Black Catholic Messenger

The Jamaican-born Catholic activist was a pivotal figure in 20th-century Black organizing in America and across the Black diaspora.

By Nate Tinner-Williams | Black Catholic Messenger

As one of his final acts in office, Joe Biden issued a flurry of presidential pardons to convicted felons, including a posthumous rehabilitation of the Jamaican-born Black nationalist activist Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud and deported in the 1920s.

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